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The human mind ever longs for occupation.

The human mind ever longs for occupation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Mind, Occupation, Humans

It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.

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Past, Greek, Males

There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside. Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Home, Delightful

The freedom of poetic license.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Freedom, Poetic License, Poetry
"Pro Publio Sestio". Oration by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Section 6), 56 BC.

For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.

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Rights, Law, People
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3125, Delphi Classics

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Merit, Praise

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wickedness, Intention

All I can do is to urge on you to regard friendship as the greatest thing in the world; for there is nothing which so fits in with our nature, or is so exactly what we want in prosperity or adversity.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friends, Adversity, World
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny (2010). “Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero with His Treatises on Friendship and Old Age: Letters of Pliny the Younger”, p.13, Cosimo, Inc.

For as the law is set over the magistrate, even so are the magistrates set over the people. And therefore, it may be truly said, "that the magistrate is a speaking law, and the law is a silent magistrate.

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Law, People, May
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.2291, Delphi Classics

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

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Men, Long, 50th Birthday
"De Senectute", 10, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 12-17,

When war is raging the laws are dumb.

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War, Law, Dumb

A man has no enemy worse than himself.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Enemy

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

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Health, Religion, Liberty

These (literary) studies are the food of youth, and consolation of age; they adorn prosperity, and are the comfort and refuge of adversity; they are pleasant at home, and are no incumbrance abroad; they accompany us at night, in our travels, and in our rural retreats.

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Adversity, Home, Night
"Oratio Pro Licinio Archia", VII, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 757,

True nobility is exempt from fear.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Fear, Anxiety, Nobility

Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.

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Cute, Sake, Moments

To-morrow will give some food for thought.

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Giving, Tomorrow, Morrow
"Epistulae ad Atticum". XV. 8,

For it is commonly said: accomplished labours are pleasant.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Work, Said, Accomplished

They who dare to ask anything of a friend, by their very request seem to imply that they would do anything for the sake of that friend.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Friends, Sake, Dare
Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate”, p.186

That which is not forbidden, is not on that account permitted.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Forbidden, Accounts

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Views, Theatre, Action
Marcus Tullius Cicero (2005). “Tusculan Disputations: On the Nature of Gods, and the Commonwealth”, p.90, Cosimo, Inc.

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old: an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

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Country, Adversity, Home

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Real, Your Side, Way
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero, William Armistead Falconer (1923). “Cicero in twenty-nine volumes”

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature, Fields, Dimensions

No sensible man ever imputes inconsistency to another for changing his minds.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men, Mind, Inconsistency

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